| dc.creator | Mwangi, W. M. | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-03T09:44:41Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-03T09:44:41Z | |
| dc.date | 1981-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:59:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:59:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Mwangi, W. M. (1981) Alternatives for improving production, employment and income distribution in Kenyan agriculture. Discussion Paper 273, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/752 | |
| dc.identifier | 317433 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1969 | |
| dc.description | The ever increasing population pressure with concomitant increasing
food demand, land fragmentation and employment pose major challenges to
agricultural development in Kenya.
In this paper we explore various ways in which the Government
can concentrate its scarce resources to accelerate production growth and
employment in agriculture to at least keep abreast of population growth.
These measures include land use intensification, shift in cropping patterns,
land redistribution, increased supply of land and dry land farming. The
second part of the paper examines the various Government policies directed
towards agriculture and attempts to assess their impact on income distribution.
The policies considered here include pricing, marketing, credit,
research, extension and land policy.
Most of the future increase in production will have to come
from higher productivity, but increasing yields is going to cost money
for irrigation, import of inputs like fertilizer, farm-to-market transport
and the entire range of infrastructure soft ware such as research,
extension and credit. Thus the country will need much higher levels of
investment than at present especially in smallholder sector. Technically
there seem to be few problems outside the feasible range of currently
available possibilities. But the perennial issues of management and
institutional structure will pose the biggest problems. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;273 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.title | Alternatives for improving production, employment and income distribution in Kenyan agriculture | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
